Though beauty remains deeply subjective, Dr. Julian De Silva has made a tradition out of challenging that idea.
Each year, the Harley Street cosmetic surgeon releases a ranked list claiming to identify the world’s most objectively beautiful celebrities by applying mathematical analysis to their facial features.
At the center of De Silva’s method is the Golden Ratio, a formula that has been used for centuries in art and architecture, including in works attributed to Leonardo da Vinci.
By digitally mapping facial landmarks and comparing their proportions to the Golden Ratio, De Silva argues that it is possible to measure who are the most beautiful female celebrity faces in 2025.
Plastic surgeon Dr. Julian De Silva shared his 2025 top 10 most beautiful supermodels according to the Golden Ratio
Image credits: Dr. Julian De Silva
10th Place – Beyoncé
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Golden Ratio Rating: 92.4%
Beyoncé once again earns a spot on Dr. Julian De Silva’s annual Golden Ratio list, this time landing at the 10th spot.
According to De Silva’s analysis, the 44-year-old ‘s strongest metric was her face shape, which measured an exceptional 99.6% symmetry, placing it among the most mathematically balanced features assessed in this year’s ranking.
9th Place – Tang Wei
Image credits: Han Myung-Gu/Getty Images
Golden Ratio Rating: 93.08%
Tang Wei earned the 9th spot on the 2025 Golden Ratio list. The Chinese actress, known globally for her film work spanning Asia and Europe, remains a fixture at major festivals and luxury fashion events, where her refined features continue to draw attention.
Dr. Julian De Silva’s facial mapping said Tang Wei’s most mathematically balanced feature was her chin, which scored a 99.8% – one of the highest single-feature symmetry ratings on this year’s list.
8th place – Aishwarya Rai
Image credits: JB Lacroix/FilmMagic
Golden Ratio Rating: 93.41%
The former Miss World and Bollywood icon remains a global reference point for classical beauty, with regular appearances at international film festivals and luxury fashion events.
According to Dr. De Silva’s Golden Ratio analysis, Rai’s strongest feature was her lip width at 99.7%, indicating near-perfect proportional balance between the lips and the surrounding facial structure.
7th place – Margot Robbie
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Golden Ratio Rating: 93.43%
Robbie landed the 7th spoton Dr. Julian De Silva’s 2025 Golden Ratio list. The Australian actress returned to the big screen this year in A Big Bold Beautiful Journey, her first major acting role since Barbie.
According to Dr. Julian De Silva’s Golden Ratio analysis, Robbie’s most mathematically balanced feature was herlip width, which scored 97.4%.
6th place – Olivia Rodrigo
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Golden Ratio Rating: 93.71%
Landing at 6th place, the singer continues to enjoy the success of her 2024 GUTS tour. Selling over 1.4 million tickets across four continents, it grossed an estimated $186 million.
According to Dr. De Silva’s facial mapping, Rodrigo’s most mathematically balanced feature was her chin, which scored 98.6%, followed closely by her forehead at 97.2%.
5th place – Jenna Ortega
Image credits: Steve Granitz/FilmMagic
Golden Ratio Rating: 93.91%
Jenna Ortega secured the 5th spot on the list. She’s enjoying the success of Netflix’s Wednesday Season 2, which released its last batch of episodes on September 3 to an overall favorable critical reception as per Rotten Tomatoes.
According to Dr. De Silva’s analysis, Ortega’s most balanced feature was her forehead, which scored an exceptional 99.6%.
4th place – Vanessa Kirby
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Golden Ratio Rating: 94.31%
Vanessa Kirby earned the 4th spot on the list. In July 2025, she starred as Sue Storm in The Fantastic Four: First Steps, marking her debut in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. She also appeared in and produced the Netflix drama Night Always Comes, which was released in August 2025.
According to Dr. De Silva’s Golden Ratio analysis, Kirby’s most symmetrical feature was her face shape, which scored 99.8%, followed closely by her nose width and length at 99.5%.
3rd place – Freida Pinto
Image credits: Eamonn M. McCormack/Getty Images
Golden Ratio Rating: 94.34%
Freida Pinto earned the 3rd spot on the list amid renewed visibility for her screen work. In 2025 she was cast as the lead in the upcoming Netflix drama series Unaccustomed Earth.
According to Dr. De Silva’s facial mapping, Pinto’s most symmetrical metric was the ratio of her nose base to lip width, which scored 99.6%.
9th place – Zendaya
Image credits: Kevin Mazur/Getty Images
Golden Ratio Rating: 94.37%
Zendaya earned the 2nd spot on the 2025 Golden Ratio list. The actress remained firmly in the global spotlight following her leading role in 2024’s Challengers. Her next project is the A24 comedy The Drama, slated for release in April 2026.
According to the doctor’s facial mapping, Zendaya’s most symmetrical feature was her lips, which scored 99.5%.
1st place – Emma Stone
Image credits: Steve Granitz/FilmMagic
Golden Ratio Rating: 94.72%
The “winner” of this year’s Golden Ratio list is none other than Emma Stone.
According to Dr. De Silva’s analysis, Stone’s strongest individual metric was her lips, which scored 95.6%.
Notably, none of her facial features reached the high percentages seen in other contenders, yet her consistently strong proportions across all measured areas combined to give her the highest overall Golden Ratio score on this year’s list.
Credits: Dr. Julian De Silva
While Dr. De Silva’s study aims to provide an objective framework for measuring beauty, he stresses that what we perceive as beautiful is also dictated by factors that go beyond mere mathematical harmony.
“[This study] emphasizes the importance of diversity and unique features in shaping our perceptions of beauty,” he added.
“Just getting out my measuring tape.” Netizens discussed the placings on social media
Utter nonsense. It's so subjective, and there are way more attractive women - Charlize Theron springs to mind.
Apatheist Account2: I remember the South African football world cup. The camera panned the crowd and the commentator said "Oh who's WAG is that?" No you jerk, that is the Oscar winning, stunningly beautiful, Charlize Theron.
Load More Replies...Pff. You can see better looking women working on the supermarket checkouts.
This is about mathematical proportions, not about who's hottest, sexiest etc. Some of the hottest people alive have off balance facial features fgs.
British actor Jack O'Connell has crooked teeth, and I think he's hot. I hope he never has them "fixed" because it would ruin his look.
Load More Replies...So, a cosmetic surgeon defines what is deemed attractive, in order to drum up business for his industry? 🤔🤔🤔 Sounds legit 🙄🙄🙄
They should call these The Most Beautiful Famous People. I suspect every single person would agree with me when I say it's not at all uncommon to see a woman who is light years more beautiful than anyone on this list. On a train, in a store, on the street, anywhere.
why isn't anybody ranking men like this? also Vanessa Kirby looks like an alien
Interesting that the top 3 dont have the sunken cheeks that seems the trend lately
To be fair they do not look half bad. But then they have photographers, make up artists, money, support staff, etc etc to make sure they look good.
Absolutely, otherwise I'd be on this list. According to my nan
Load More Replies...Personally, I’ve always found myself attracted to people with unique facial features, scars, or birthmarks. Some like that cookie cutter Barbie doll look. We like what we like I guess.
Just goes to show the golden ratio is singularly inadequate as a definition of beauty... because not a single one of these women would have made my own top 10 list - it's just an opinion that attempts to use a very narrow formula to describe something very complex and not remotely grounded in math (i.e. human emotions) to justify the author's feelings. The simple fact that Jennifer Connelley isn't on this list completely invalidates it IMHO.
Attributing a number or formula to something doesn't make your approach automatically "scientific". More often than not you're just codifying your own bias.
Lets see them without makeup. Although 9th place – Zendaya should be 1 IMO.
Amazing how beauty is different for us all. Which is good of course. :)) For me she is revolting.
Load More Replies...I am not sure how much math was actually involved in here. :D April fools is in few months guys :) sure, beauty is personal preference, but please! there are thousands "celebs" that are more beautiful than most of ppl from this list. And we know that's not only me. This is like.. Universally agreed upon. (without mentioning, I would put 3 from this list on my personal hidious list, if there was such a thing)
Oh, look: all thin-but-curvy, young models and actresses. What would be interesting would be be to see who else BESIDES such women would be identified by a search program that found people who matched this very abstract notion of a trait of beauty. Do such oddly defined-as-beautiful end up more commonly as CEOs? Politicians? Substitute teachers? (I gotcha covered, Honey!) What about odd looking yet appealing people, like Bjork? Or people who would normally be far far away from the public spotlight but for a photo which caught people's attention, like National Geographic's Afghani woman with the eyes (IYKYK)? Does this make people seem more likeable even if they don't inspire lust (Melissa McCarthy)? How about old people? This is nothing more than, "Hey, look! Presumptively s**y women!"
If you find Bjork appealing you must like screaming
Load More Replies...-212, think that might be a new record. Congratulations Abel for uploading the worst article of the year🥳
Never. It's too ingrained. And it's not just women. There are a bunch of places naming the sexiest man or the most eligible bachelor. And those fireman calendars don't feature the the fat or homely ones.
Load More Replies...I really wish a warning popped up before you replied to a post, such as "Are you SURE you understood the premise of the post? Really?? READ IT AGAIN"
I watched a doc abt 20’yrs ago.. aome big Hollywood man. He said men and women are Made to be beautiful. Studio pays whatever it needs to make them beauties, because that in turn will make them ££, the amt of money spent on their looks and bodies must be 6 figures annually.
Utter nonsense. It's so subjective, and there are way more attractive women - Charlize Theron springs to mind.
Apatheist Account2: I remember the South African football world cup. The camera panned the crowd and the commentator said "Oh who's WAG is that?" No you jerk, that is the Oscar winning, stunningly beautiful, Charlize Theron.
Load More Replies...Pff. You can see better looking women working on the supermarket checkouts.
This is about mathematical proportions, not about who's hottest, sexiest etc. Some of the hottest people alive have off balance facial features fgs.
British actor Jack O'Connell has crooked teeth, and I think he's hot. I hope he never has them "fixed" because it would ruin his look.
Load More Replies...So, a cosmetic surgeon defines what is deemed attractive, in order to drum up business for his industry? 🤔🤔🤔 Sounds legit 🙄🙄🙄
They should call these The Most Beautiful Famous People. I suspect every single person would agree with me when I say it's not at all uncommon to see a woman who is light years more beautiful than anyone on this list. On a train, in a store, on the street, anywhere.
why isn't anybody ranking men like this? also Vanessa Kirby looks like an alien
Interesting that the top 3 dont have the sunken cheeks that seems the trend lately
To be fair they do not look half bad. But then they have photographers, make up artists, money, support staff, etc etc to make sure they look good.
Absolutely, otherwise I'd be on this list. According to my nan
Load More Replies...Personally, I’ve always found myself attracted to people with unique facial features, scars, or birthmarks. Some like that cookie cutter Barbie doll look. We like what we like I guess.
Just goes to show the golden ratio is singularly inadequate as a definition of beauty... because not a single one of these women would have made my own top 10 list - it's just an opinion that attempts to use a very narrow formula to describe something very complex and not remotely grounded in math (i.e. human emotions) to justify the author's feelings. The simple fact that Jennifer Connelley isn't on this list completely invalidates it IMHO.
Attributing a number or formula to something doesn't make your approach automatically "scientific". More often than not you're just codifying your own bias.
Lets see them without makeup. Although 9th place – Zendaya should be 1 IMO.
Amazing how beauty is different for us all. Which is good of course. :)) For me she is revolting.
Load More Replies...I am not sure how much math was actually involved in here. :D April fools is in few months guys :) sure, beauty is personal preference, but please! there are thousands "celebs" that are more beautiful than most of ppl from this list. And we know that's not only me. This is like.. Universally agreed upon. (without mentioning, I would put 3 from this list on my personal hidious list, if there was such a thing)
Oh, look: all thin-but-curvy, young models and actresses. What would be interesting would be be to see who else BESIDES such women would be identified by a search program that found people who matched this very abstract notion of a trait of beauty. Do such oddly defined-as-beautiful end up more commonly as CEOs? Politicians? Substitute teachers? (I gotcha covered, Honey!) What about odd looking yet appealing people, like Bjork? Or people who would normally be far far away from the public spotlight but for a photo which caught people's attention, like National Geographic's Afghani woman with the eyes (IYKYK)? Does this make people seem more likeable even if they don't inspire lust (Melissa McCarthy)? How about old people? This is nothing more than, "Hey, look! Presumptively s**y women!"
If you find Bjork appealing you must like screaming
Load More Replies...-212, think that might be a new record. Congratulations Abel for uploading the worst article of the year🥳
Never. It's too ingrained. And it's not just women. There are a bunch of places naming the sexiest man or the most eligible bachelor. And those fireman calendars don't feature the the fat or homely ones.
Load More Replies...I really wish a warning popped up before you replied to a post, such as "Are you SURE you understood the premise of the post? Really?? READ IT AGAIN"
I watched a doc abt 20’yrs ago.. aome big Hollywood man. He said men and women are Made to be beautiful. Studio pays whatever it needs to make them beauties, because that in turn will make them ££, the amt of money spent on their looks and bodies must be 6 figures annually.























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